The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I have learned… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. Laila bore… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling and squirming in her mother's… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But Mariam hardly noticed, hardly cared...the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that Love was a damaging… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She understood then what Nana meant, that a harami was an unwanted thing; that she, Mariam, was an illegitimate person who would… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I will use a flower petal for paper, And write you the sweetest letter,” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But for a moment, standing there with Tariq in the sunlight, it was as though those years had never happened. Her parents… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
